In reference to Dobro's comment:

I live in Va Beach, but travel to Richmond and D.C. fairly regularly. Anyone who lives near these areas is welcome to have any of my "unplayable" guitars.

The breakdown:

One guitar is a twelve string. The neck seems to be attached by only the fretboard. The gap where the back of the neck is supposed to meet the body is about 3/16 of an inch. The guitar is up in Northern VA right now, so I'm working from memory. I think the gap between the strings (only six) and the twelth fret is about 1/4 of an inch.

The next guitar seems to have been used as a cane (I turned my back for five minutes!). All the way at the base of the guitar, where the right end of the strap goes, the body wood is split. I think at some point the peg that holds the strap was driven inot the body. The split has moved almost to the point where the body has started to curve back inward. As a result, the neck has been raised.

The third guitar was ruined at the factory. The distance between the nut and the first fret is a little too large. I bought this guitar from a wholesale outlet for a nine year old girl who was trying to learn to play. It's a medium-sized guitar built for little hands, and costs about $25. I couldn't even come close to tuning it, so she never saw it. She has an electric Lotus with a "Ken&Barbie" amp, but she wanted an acoustic.

That's the low-down. If anyone's interested, give me a holler. I live in a shoe-box apartment; I need all the space I can get. If I can get rid of these guitars, I can get a banjo and/or a violin(fiddle).

-Racer